Whole Foods to open store in Asheville

9:42 PM,
Nov. 20, 2012

Whole Foods Market announced on Tuesday that it planned to open a 35,000-square-foot building in a Tunnel Road shopping center that's currently home to a Kmart store, which is slated to close in January.

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Jason Sandford

Whole Foods Market, a publicly traded natural and organic foods grocery store chain based in Texas, announced Tuesday that it's planning to open a store in a Tunnel Road shopping center that's getting a major makeover.

Whole Foods Market said the planned 35,000-square-foot store, the first Asheville store under the Whole Foods Market brand, is scheduled to open in 2014. The Greenlife Grocey the company owns on Merrimon Avenue will remain open, a company spokeswoman said. The new store will be the company's 11th in North Carolina.